Georgetown, Livermore Lab Sign New Agreement on Research, Teaching

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014– A NEW AGREEMENT BETWEEN Georgetown and the prestigious Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is enhancing a partnership that is likely to benefit research in Big Data, biosecurity, climate change, disaster management and other areas.

The partnership began in 2009, spearheaded by Spiros Dimolitsas, the university’s senior vice president for research and chief technology officer at Georgetown who served as LLNL’s associate director for engineering between 1995 and 2001.

SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION

“This is a very important next step in deepening the extraordinary partnership we’ve enjoyed with Livermore over the past five years,” Georgetown President John J. DeGioia says of the new agreement he signed Friday with LLNL director Bill Goldstein. “It will allow us to strategically collaborate on research projects and programs designed to benefit our local, national and global communities.”

Provost Robert Groves says the new agreement provides a host of additional possibilities.

“Together we intend to seek new funding opportunities, and to establish and expand research and educational programs,” Groves says. “We also hope to create interdisciplinary research activity, exchange faculty, students and research staff, create scholarly products and host events for the purpose of advancing scientific and scholarly endeavors.

MEETING THE CHALLENGES

“This agreement advances and broadens the areas for cooperation between our two institutions,” says LLNL Director Bill Goldstein. “It helps bring together the policy, governmental and biomedical strengths of Georgetown with the science, computational and engineering strengths of Lawrence Livermore, to better meet the great challenges our nation faces in global security, health and education.”